staith

English

Alternative forms

• stathe

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse stǫð, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *staþwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steɪθ/

Noun

staith (plural staiths)

1. (obsolete) A shore or a riverbank.

   From staith to staith.

2. (UK, dialect) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars into vessels.

Derived terms

• staithman

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “staith”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Hiatts, hattis, that is